Unai Emery

[tomd2103]

The thing to remember with Unai, is that he's already been approached by a 'top 6' premier league club with a fan base that 'expects' success, and which wouldn't tolerate someone building a team and going through the associated transitional process.  It did not go well.  He's been there. Done that.

He knows full well that a move to Man Utd is not a "five-year project", regardless of how it's sold to him. It's 12-18 months to show significant improvement, or get the sack.  He's not getting time to rebuild that squad in his own image.

The only way he's moving is if he agitates for it, and I simply do not see that happening, given the infrastructure he has established around himself here.  It's not like the financial rewards would be THAT much more, surely? He's on £5m a year with us, and will probably get a raise if we qualify for the Champions League, so he's one of the top paid managers already.

It reminds me a bit of the scene at the end of the film "Moneyball" where Billy Beane goes to meet the owner of the Boston Red Sox and is made an offer that would have made him the highest paid General Manager in history.

If Manchester United have an eye on Unai Emery and I have suspected that might have been the case ever since Alex Ferguson's complimentary comments after the Newcastle defeat at the start of the season, then I presume that they would come with an absolutely incredible offer to him.  If we put our Villa allegiance to one side, the thought of restoring Manchester United to the pinnacle of English and European football would be one that most managers would relish taking on, just as guiding the Red Sox to the World Series would have been back then.  Anyone going into a club like that knows that they will have the best resources available to them to try and do it

In the film, Beane eventually turned down the Red Sox and there is a scene where he is talking about how badly he wanted to win at the Oakland A's because it would mean a lot more and they would have changed the game.  Whether that was true in real life or a film adaptation is another question, but it might just be that Unai Emery has a similar sort of feeling about us as well and that he is afforded a level of control that he might not get elsewhere.

[Dogtanian]

Funniest thing about the lightbulb chat, was that they lost that game 2-1.

https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/watch-mikel-artetas-light-bulb-team-talk-in-arsenal-all-or-nothing-documentary

Doesn't he know you have to connect with the supporters, not each other?

[chrisw1]

JFC what was that, a desk out of a magic bag. It was completely Brentish. Another season for him with nowt to show for it.
The latest episode of the Villa Podcast, post Sundays win at Arsenal, does a brilliant overview of  how the Arsenal fans can’t bear the idea they treated the serial winner and great bloke in Emery, badly. Instead helping to propagate the continued idea this eejit is a good manager. 

It's the same as the kept trying to argue that Ramsdale was a better keeper than Martinez and they had done the right deal.  Delusion.

[pablo_picasso]

How the fuck none of them burst out laughing during that debacle is beyond me.

Maybe next time he should bring a bottle as a prop...

[Hookeysmith]

How the fuck none of them burst out laughing during that debacle is beyond me.

Maybe next time he should bring a bottle as a prop...

Applause

[kippaxvilla2]

I will however see your Arteta and raise you an Ainsworth.

https://youtu.be/pIL9e6WtLvw?si=f3-F4gxvtnbY5WCz

[Clampy]

It reminded me of a film years ago called Bostocks Cup. I think Tim Healey played the manager and one of his team talks was 'Please Please Please Please win the game'.

[Smirker]

Unai doing what Unai does best.

Going deep into European competition.

[PeterWithesShin]

This is a team talk

[Brazilian Villain]

Unai doing what Unai does best.

Going deep into European competition.

Apparently, that's the eighth European quarter-final he's won in a row. Only lost his first one, when he was at Valencia.

*According to the presenter on Virgin Media.

[kippaxvilla2]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C50mh3cN8NB/?igsh=MTF4NjJ2bGFuYWxucg==

[ldavfc4eva]

Lovely stuff

Last night was the worst I have seen us play under Unai, and yet we still managed to go through.

He has instilled a winning mentality in this group of players, and the fact that every player has stepped up not one or two levels but in some case (Thinking Rogers/Duran) a lot more.

So glad he is our manager

[Rigadon]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C50mh3cN8NB/?igsh=MTF4NjJ2bGFuYWxucg==

Outstanding. 

[OCD]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C50mh3cN8NB/?igsh=MTF4NjJ2bGFuYWxucg==

Still a twat in the comments who has to take the piss out of the way he pronounces 'evening'.

[Somniloquism]

Spot the Unai......

https://twitter.com/footbalIfights/status/1781276108165431438